Home Décor & Garden

Home and Garden Pieces, Curated From Independent Makers.

Home and garden pieces are the things you live with longest, look at most often, and (if you have chosen them well) come to like more rather than less over time. The Home and Garden edit at Sostter is curated on roughly that principle. The pieces here come from independent makers and small brands — ceramicists, lighting designers, furniture workshops, candle-makers, textile houses, garden-tool specialists — chosen against a fairly demanding set of criteria each time: they have to look properly considered, they have to be made well enough to last well beyond the season they were bought in, and they have to come from a brand whose values stand up to a closer look than the mass-market home retailers tend to encourage. Anything that reads as filler — generic mid-toned ceramics, scented candles in glass jars indistinguishable from forty other glass jars, the kind of decorative objects whose only purpose is to fill a shelf — does not make it through.

The categories run from the obvious to the slightly less obvious: lighting, furniture, ceramics, glassware, kitchen and dining objects, candles and home fragrance, prints and art, and a small but growing garden range covering tools, planters, and outdoor textiles for the warmer months. Within each category, the curatorial preference leans toward the considered rather than the inexpensive — a single beautifully made pendant light over four cheap ones, an actually heirloom-grade chopping board over the plywood replacement bought every two years, a candle that smells of something specific rather than something generically pleasant. The case for shopping this way is the simple one: the cumulative cost of accumulating less but better tends to be lower than the cumulative cost of replacing as you go, and the resulting home tends to look rather more like a home than a series of catalogue pages.

Find more pieces for the home in our Home Furnishings edit, set the table with our Dining collection, and add atmosphere with Candles & Home Fragrance. Discover brands chosen for how they make things through Sustainable Brands, or browse values-led picks via Shop by Purpose.